Five questions relative to Dissenters’ worship though under persecution for the same. By an unknown hand: ‘1 Whether was it a duty before the comeing forth of the Last Act against Conventicles to meete together to pray & preach by such as are non Conformists: & whether were not their Meetinge Maniteyned & Carried on under that notion’
Five questions about the worship of Dissenters
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- ReferenceGB 123 DWL/RB/1/218
- Former ReferenceGB 123 Treatises v.43 Treatises v.173
- Dates of Creation? 1670
- Physical Descriptionf 213 (f 213v is blank); 299 x 193 mm.
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Note
The Conventicle Act of 1664 forbade conventicles or religious assemblies of more than five people (other than of the same household) outside the Church of England. The act of 1664 expired after 3 years but the Conventicles Act of 1670 continued the suppression of conventicles by imposing fines on those attending such assemblies, of five shillings for the first offence, and ten shillings for a second. Any preacher or person who used their own residence as a meeting house for a conventicle could be fined 20 shillings for a first offence and 40 shillings for a second. See Entring Book Glossary.
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Argent / Black Treatises v.173 (also listed as v.43); Thomas p.26